‘ELITE’: The #Palantir App #ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential #deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address. ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be. Tool receives peoples’ addresses from Department of Health and Human Services ( #HHS) among other sources
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
https://archive.ph/9UPzF

The January 5 #HHS memo on childhood #vaccines calls for "gold standard medical research to assess overall health outcomes related to
all immunizations on the revised schedule."
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/decision-memo-adopting-revised-childhood-adolescent-immunization-schedule.pdf

Good critique by #JessSteier: "You can’t ethically run placebo-controlled trials on vaccines that are already known to work and are the standard of care. Withholding a proven vaccine from children in a control group violates the Declaration of Helsinki. This is a foundational principle of research ethics. So when they say 'we need gold standard science before we can trust this schedule,' what they’re really saying is 'we’re going to set an impossible bar and then act like the vaccines failed to clear it.'"
https://medium.com/@jsteier_29203/fools-gold-standard-science-5fcdd47fdda5

#DefendResearch #Ethics #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

The January 5 #HHS memo on childhood #vaccines calls for "gold standard medical research to assess overall health outcomes related to
all immunizations on the revised schedule."
https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/decision-memo-adopting-revised-childhood-adolescent-immunization-schedule.pdf

Good critique by #JessSteier: "You can’t ethically run placebo-controlled trials on vaccines that are already known to work and are the standard of care. Withholding a proven vaccine from children in a control group violates the Declaration of Helsinki. This is a foundational principle of research ethics. So when they say 'we need gold standard science before we can trust this schedule,' what they’re really saying is 'we’re going to set an impossible bar and then act like the vaccines failed to clear it.'"
https://medium.com/@jsteier_29203/fools-gold-standard-science-5fcdd47fdda5

#DefendResearch #Ethics #Medicine #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

‘ELITE’: The #Palantir App #ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential #deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address. ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be. Tool receives peoples’ addresses from Department of Health and Human Services ( #HHS) among other sources
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
https://archive.ph/9UPzF

"220,000 Fewer Workers: How Trump’s Cuts Affected Every Federal Agency."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/01/09/upshot/trump-workforce-cuts-table.html

Eye-opening, stomach-turning table of the staff cuts to 500+ federal agencies, Nov 2024 - Nov 2025. Plus a search engine to find the cuts for a given agency. Some examples:

#NASA, down 6%
#NIH, down 18%
#HHS, down 18%
#NOAA, down 20%
#CDC, down 22%
#OSTP, down 26%
#NSF, down 29%
#NEA, down 34%
#IMLS, down 59%
#NEH, down 73%

#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

#HHS unveiled a new childhood vaccination schedule today. The pared-down schedule was developed in secret, not using the normal public science-based process. With the change, the US recommends fewer vaccines than Germany, Israel, Spain, China, & many other countries. https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/childhood-vaccine-schedule-new-cdc-recommendation-11-shots/

#HHS unveiled a new childhood vaccination schedule today. The pared-down schedule was developed in secret, not using the normal public science-based process. With the change, the US recommends fewer vaccines than Germany, Israel, Spain, China, & many other countries. https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/childhood-vaccine-schedule-new-cdc-recommendation-11-shots/

“'It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies,' Gavin Yamey, a professor of global health at Duke University, wrote on BlueSky.

Hepatitis B, which can cause liver failure, is a significant health issue in Guinea-Bissau..."

https://undark.org/2025/12/23/cdc-hepatitis-vaccine-study/

#PublicHealth #HepatitisB #HepB #vaccines #immunizations #ChildrensHealth #research #grants #funding #bioethics #CDC #HHS #ACIP #GuineaBissau #GlobalHealth

“'It is unethical to do a randomized controlled trial in which you withhold a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborn babies,' Gavin Yamey, a professor of global health at Duke University, wrote on BlueSky.

Hepatitis B, which can cause liver failure, is a significant health issue in Guinea-Bissau..."

https://undark.org/2025/12/23/cdc-hepatitis-vaccine-study/

#PublicHealth #HepatitisB #HepB #vaccines #immunizations #ChildrensHealth #research #grants #funding #bioethics #CDC #HHS #ACIP #GuineaBissau #GlobalHealth

#RFKJr replaces chair of controversial #vaccine advisory panel

The chair of #ACIP, himself a well-known vaccine critic, will be moving to an official role within the #HHS, the agency announced Monday.

HHS announced #MartinKulldorff was appointed to be chief “science” officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation ( #ASPE).

#PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #insurance #eugenics
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5628322-martin-kulldorff-kennedy-hhs-appointment/

#MartinKulldorff, a Swedish biostatistician, served as chair of #ACIP at the #CDC earlier this year after #HHS Secy #RFKJr fired & remade the entire committee with known #vaccine skeptics & critics.

#PublicHealth #HealthCare #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics

#RFKJr replaces chair of controversial #vaccine advisory panel

The chair of #ACIP, himself a well-known vaccine critic, will be moving to an official role within the #HHS, the agency announced Monday.

HHS announced #MartinKulldorff was appointed to be chief “science” officer for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning & Evaluation ( #ASPE).

#PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump #ConspiracyTheories #disinformation #law #policy #insurance #eugenics
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5628322-martin-kulldorff-kennedy-hhs-appointment/

where the fuck is Bill Gates? why isn’t he screaming about the #NIH and Kennedy’s evisceration of #HHS ?

where are Oprah, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, Lebron James, the Kardashians, all of them paper billionaires?

where is Mark Cuban? and how about the Democrats’ favorite billionaires, Michael Bloomberg and Howard Schulz?

where exactly are all the good billionaires fighting Trump’s destruction of the federal government and what semblance of democracy USA had?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-fear-trump-administration-nih-cuts-could-impact-health-60-minutes-transcript/